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by dotnet00 2y ago
3 launches in mid-2025 isn't really all that promising an indicator for a constellation that needs to launch thousands of satellites. They'd need signs of an extreme ramp up in launches coming, particularly since so many of these
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think the pricing is based on coverage, usage density and demand. The UK probably has enough terrestrial coverage of amy sort that they figure they can upcharge anyone who still wants/needs Starlink, since it's mainly setup to b
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yeah I suppose that's a fair point to make.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Surely all of us have experienced having to talk to someone who is angry, and even if we can't do anything about it, adjusting the way we speak to show that we understand their anger? Eg letting them (to an extent) rant about the troub
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They aren't robots, they can put on a more genuine tone explaining to the customer that they can't do much, or escalate to someone more powerful without the customer having to argue with them to do it. A family member had a bankin
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by dotnet00 2y ago
1. Customer is mad about problem 2. Support person does not know this and speaks as if the other side is happy and casual 3. Customer gets even more mad because they feel their problem isn't being taken seriously, leading to some sort
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's just that it's very easy for deviations from what the sensors see to occur. In traditional 3d printing, this can be stuff like a sensor switch wearing out, maybe physically moving slightly, being temperature sensitive, maybe
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's nowhere near bad enough for someone to lose their job. The only impact was that outsiders panicked for a bit and corrections had to be issued. In exchange, people gained an awareness of the behind-the-scenes work being done to ens
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I guess they could be saying that. I don't really see the appeal of Replika/Character AI, while I do of VRC, so I'm obviously not in the target audience for the point they're making.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Valve just has a lot of goodwill, they don't feel the need to comment on every social issue, they censor less than the competition, they are very indie friendly, they'd rather just not put out a sequel than churn out yearly releas
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The social aspect of vrchat is what makes it popular. None of what you described has any relevance to that. Fittingly, the equivalent projects started by the companies currently trying to stuff generative AI into everything fell completely
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I mean, it's obviously different if you're somewhere that the news has directly actionable info. Just like how someone who doesn't otherwise care about the news will probably keep track of weather news during storm season in
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Exactly, the majority of the strangers that end up talking to me turn out to be total weirdos. Apparently something about the way I carry myself seems to paint me as a target. So, I've taken to wearing earphones to signal I'm not
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Don't forget Principia! The stock orbital mechanics make RSS too easy.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That's more of a movie trope. The ISS has had leaks, they are not explosive decompression. It makes sense too, the pressure vessel only has to hold in 1 atm, and we can manage to breathe a lot less than that.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Scramjets require the engine to already be going pretty fast, so they can't be a first stage engine. Then, with a rocket, most of the speed to get into orbit is built up after getting out to essentially vacuum, so, again, a scramjet is
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Most Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg equivalents were similarly divisive and controversial figures while they were alive or active (say, Ford). That only went away when the people who experienced them aged out. Steve Jobs is a nice, more recent exa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It was posted when the booster had just landed and the ship was still coasting. I guess the mods figure the topic should be contained here for being the first related post.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Unfortunately Orion is stupidly heavy.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
This argument is not convincing, considering that there were other private space companies, some with far more funding and far more support from NASA at their inception (eg Kistler Aerospace) which never got anywhere. That's why the jo
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They still would've been in position to put down a marker, since they had to be prepared for that before they knew they'd be able to maintain telemetry down to the water, and if they're already in position, it doesn't hu
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by dotnet00 2y ago
You need to balance peak heating and heating duration. Shallower reentry means lower peak heating, but higher heating duration. Steeper entry means higher peak heating, but lower heating duration. The heat shield material can handle a certa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They already do have some pretty significant flap redesigns in the pipeline. Slightly smaller and placed slightly farther back from the centerline.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They've been concerned about burn through in that area for a while, but they didn't get to test it before now to understand how it'd perform in reality. IIRC they were even calling out that they were surprised that the temper
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Reminiscent of the booster in IFT-1 just doing spins in the air, refusing to break up even after the flight termination system was triggered. Completely unlike KSP with its wobbly rockets.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They had a plane flying in the area shortly after landing, probably to drop some marker for a group to come around and recover the black box. I think they've stopped bothering with preserving the test articles though, in the process of
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I only live close enough to be able to see Enterprise, which didn't go to space, but I like to go there at least once a year, just because seeing the sheer size of it and knowing that all the Shuttles were like that is inspiring (the S
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think technically it's just barely large enough to fit, but, the booster isn't designed to land like that, it's supposed to be caught from the top by a tower. So, the Raptors would probably burn a hole through the barge try
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Depends on how packed the room is ;)
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There are a couple of great examples of this playing out in "reverse" with some missions that, at pre-F9 launch costs could only afford to be on a rideshare or small launcher and thus were expecting to have to deal with all sorts

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